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Originally posted by Father Bronze:
Thank you all for all of the support.
My class requires me to study some important social issue.
I was looking up different surveys I could use and I found this one about imagination. I e-mailed the Yale Professor who holds the copyrights to the survey and he gave me permission to use the study in any way that would help my research.
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done... I'd like to see your compiled statistical data too once you're done if that's available... ESPECIALLY if you're getting data from a non-gaming control group (which I imagine you must be... otherwise these results would be of little value).
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Good point Thoran.
My wife who is pursuing a Master's Degree in Statistics made the same point. I'm hoping that the test has already been normed against a control group, but otherwise I'll be looking for non-gamers to take the survey too.
Know any non-gamers who'd be interested in taking the survey? [/QUOTE]Well I'm sure there's volumes on how to get a decent control for statistical studies... but in this case I'd suggest mailing surveys to random households in a region covering roughly the same area as the respondents. If you solicit online for a control, you'll be skewing your control group based on the fact that they're online... to obtain a truly population representational sample you need to go snail mail. Even then you'll have to discuss in your results the several problems inherent in gathering data by these methods and any techniques employed to mitigate those issues.
MS in Statistics... YUK! [img]smile.gif[/img] , I hated those classes more than spinach. I'd rather take Fluid Dynamics, Quantum Physics, and EM Fields and Waves all in the same semester than take one more statistics class. I'm working on my MS in Engineering Management, so thankfully statistics is an avoidable area of study.
